When His Eyes Opened (Avery and Elliott)

“Layla, I feel tired when you force me like this.” Eric confessed to her, “I didn’t save you because of you. If it was Hazel, Robert or Hayden, I would be the same…”

“I know. You are going to say that because my mother saved you, you saved us to repay my mother’s life-saving grace.” Layla blocked the rest of his words, “I don’t want to marry you just because you saved me. Before you saved me, I wanted to marry you. Don’t think that I did it purely because of guilt. I’m not a fool. If I don’t like you, even if you save me ten times, I won’t marry you!”

Eric looked at Layla’s firm eyes, and as Layla’s words echoed in his ears, he lowered his head in shame.

“Anyway, you think you won’t live long, so you can accompany me during the last period of your life!” Layla said, “Just treat me as the last time you pet me.”

In the living room.

Hazel and Robert read the album, and then returned the album to Eric’s father.

“Are you still looking at it? There are other albums of his at home.” Mr. Santos asked enthusiastically.

and Mr. Santos stayed here to take

both sweet and sensible,

Hazel responded in one

Santos immediately brought a

were all Eric’s photo

Eric was good-looking, he took many photos

was in good

couldn’t hide his pride when he talked about this. “At

nodded: “Brother Eric became popular before graduating from

drafts or something… We, Eric, were discovered by a scout while we were shopping. Back then we thought that scout was a liar!” As Mr. Santos said, he

Robert listened

gave us all the first money he earned. Because he was not very old at that time,

listening now?”